Chaplain Coord-Crestwood Medical Center-PRN-Varies
About The Position
The Chaplain Coordinator is a member of the healthcare team who provides pastoral care to patients, their loved ones, and, when appropriate, staff. Through professional training and certification, the coordinator helps people understand life events in relation to their spiritual and emotional well-being, offering prayer or reflection when appropriate. The role ensures that religious and spiritual needs are addressed in assigned hospital areas and promotes an interdisciplinary approach to pastoral care among chaplains. The coordinator delivers chaplaincy care under the direction of the Senior Manager of Patient Experience and Senior Director of Quality, participates in departmental administrative procedures and continuous quality improvement, and demonstrates Crestwood’s mission, vision, and values. The position involves hospital rounding for up to 16 hours per week, availability from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and approximately four hours per week of on-call coverage as needed.
Requirements
- College or seminary education.
- At least one to two units of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) that meet the educational requirements of the candidate’s faith group.
- Licensed and ordained minister by a recognized faith group.
- Blessing, approval, or commissioning from the candidate’s faith group or congregation.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
- Ability to establish rapport through effective listening.
- Ability to work as a team member and communicate relevant patient-care information to appropriate healthcare staff.
- Willingness to meet the spiritual needs of people of all religious faiths, ages, genders, sexual orientations, races, and ethnic backgrounds.
- Ability to communicate respectfully across cultures and with people of different faiths.
- Ability to handle the stressful nature of hospital work, discern opinions from facts in patient documentation, and maintain a calm demeanor.
- Ability to work independently and remain flexible when faced with multiple priorities.
Nice To Haves
- Completed curriculum of theological classes and demonstrated competent pastoral-care skills.
- Experience as a hospital chaplain.
Responsibilities
- Carry out the goals of the Pastoral Care Department in alignment with Huntsville Hospital’s vision, mission, and values.
- Round at the hospital according to a schedule set by leadership, up to 16 hours per week, and provide approximately four hours of on-call coverage per week as needed.
- Assist the Senior Patient Experience Manager with rounding schedules for units with low HCAHPS survey performance or low employee engagement results.
- Coordinate clergy and pastoral visitors from the religious community.
- Arrange and deliver appropriate chaplain care to patients, loved ones, and staff in assigned hospital areas or faith groups.
- Respond to requests for a chaplain, requests to contact a patient’s place of worship, trauma, crises, end-of-life discussions, and staff counseling needs.
- Round on new admissions and provide spiritual support as needed.
- Visit patients, families, and staff regularly, prioritizing those in greatest need; conduct spiritual screenings and provide spiritual care interventions based on assessed needs.
- Provide confidential, nonjudgmental listening, counsel, guidance, crisis and disaster intervention, bereavement counseling, and support with ethical decision-making.
- Address the spiritual needs of patients and loved ones in accordance with their values and preferences.
- Offer appropriate inspirational resources, such as blessings, prayer, meditation, or sacred texts, and help address spiritual pain and end-of-life fears and hopes.
- Provide spiritual support, counseling, grief and healing interventions, and education to hospital staff; be available to staff and their families for professional and personal needs.
- Guide families and staff who lack alternative spiritual support, as well as those who may benefit from a chaplain’s visit despite having other support.
- Maintain records of clinical activity, communicate with department members, and report to hospital administration monthly.
- Serve on assigned hospital committees and act as the Staff Chaplain proxy as needed.
- Participate in regular professional development activities.
- Facilitate sacraments and rituals that support patients and families coping with health-related crises.
- Respond to requests for chaplain care in a timely manner.
- Assist hospital staff, including nurses, physicians, allied health personnel, and volunteers, with personal and spiritual problems.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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Job Type
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